Come listen to Jim Doughtery talk about making a great pitch- Lunch will be served!

Jim Dougherty has almost 30 years of diverse operating experiences in both IT and information services as CEO. He has scaled startups to nearly a billion dollars of revenue. He has led significant turnarounds; taken companies public, successfully sold companies and raised substantial private equity in one of the worst markets in 25 years (Q2 2001).

Jim’s early career was at Lotus Development where he served as the General Manager of the Internet Division and a member of the Executive Committee at the time of the sale to IBM. After that Jim led four consecutive turnarounds for investors: IntraLinks, Gartner, Prodigy, and MataMatrix. All resulted in excellent outcomes for investors, such as Silver Lake, Kleiner Perkins, Integral Capital, Rho Capital, among others. He then joined Great Hill Partners as the Operating Partner working with 7 portfolio companies on their boards of directors and as an advisor to the CEOs, and in one case, as interim CEO.

Jim is now co founder of a startup called Madaket, a Healthcare IT company based in Boston.
Jim has been on a total of 12 company Boards of Directors and 5 not-for-profits. He is now on the Board of Trustees for Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Bright Sprit Children’s Foundation, both in Boston, and the Foreign Policy Association in New York City. Jim is also a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations running a roundtable on what the US foreign policy should be to maintain our lead in innovation and another on Cyber Threats.

He lives in Boston and Cape Cod with his Wife. His three children are grown and live all over the world.